Low-Key Anglo-Saxon Runic Ring Slogans

Very much in keeping with our own slogan, "It's better than nothing":

The Wheatley Hill Finger-ring, an 8th-century silver ring found in Durham County in 1993 "by vendor while digging the foundation trenches for his house."

Inscription type: inscription

Inscription position: back

Inscription language: Old English

Inscription script: Runic

Inscription transliteration: ring ic hatt.

Inscription translation: I am called ring.

[h]ring ic hatt[æ]

"I am called ring."

Let other ring-inscriptions promise to staunch blood, turn the wearer invisible or invincible, call down blessings and protection, ease childbirth, charm lovers, protect ships, win arguments, improve wit, bring forth beer, and other empty promises. This ring tells it like it is: I am called ring. What you see is what you get. Accept no substitutes.

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